The Progress., 1887-11-19


IT was announced on the 9Th that two
notorious gangs of counterfeiters and
criminals that had infested Louisville and
vicinity for some years had been COM
pletely broken up by Government de-
tectives ssEssF t. NatfES fs4.3
~ DELEGATES from almost every State in
the Union and Canada were present at the
fifteenth annual session of the American
Public h Health Association, which was held
at Memphis, Tenn, on the 8th- 5,fEgsi
The large barn of Lambert Fribley, near
New Philadelphia, o., was burned on the
Sth, together with five valuable horses,
three cows and his entire years crop. a
EXTENSIVE steel rail manufacturers at
Philadelphia We're isanguine of the future
on the 9th, and felt no anxiety because the
Presidents of large railway companies had
not sent in their orders. At the present
price OF rails there was no danger froSa for
eign competition. 80 2-'s'
The losses by fire in the United States
and Canada during October were SO, 769,-
825. against a loss of $12, 900, 600 in Octo-
ber, 1886, and 5,75O, 900 in October,
1885. The total for the first ten months of
the current year foot up $1O2, ,953 1926.
against $95, 400, 600 for the corresponding
period Of 1886. ~
The oil-works Of Pierce & Canterbury, at
Boston, were entirely destroyed by fire on
the 8th. Loss, 500, ,OOOs >
In the annual report of Mr.. Miller, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, submitted
on the 9th, he estimates that $12O, ,OOO, 900
will be collected from internal revenue tax
alton during the current fiscal year .t~sp
GEORGE GRANT, a colored crook and des-
City on the 9th, falling dead near the spot
five ho
Jones' For the latter crime an innocent
negro was lynched by mob 81. -. t...,
CHARLES H. LocKsLEY (colored), aged
eleven years, was sentenced at Atlanta.
Ga, on the 9th to ife-imprisonment for
murder
The main building of the Soldiers
Orphans Home at Davenport, Ia. was burned
on the 9th. Loss, $3.50, OOO;, insurance,
$4,000 A flash of lightning caused the
fire. No lives were lost. ,g. .....-..
ADvICEs of the 9th report the death of
ten pers ons by poison placed in food at a
party given by family named King, in
Delhi, La There was trouble in the party,
and Mrs. King was charged with poisoning
the food &c.. f. - : :
IT was reported on the 9th that the iron
industry in Northern Michigan had been
almost ruined ON account Of the scarcity of
charcoal
FIVE of the largest business houses in
Murfreesboro Tenn, were destroyed by an
incendiary fire on the 9th
Two-THIRDs of the wells in Grant County
Ind, were dry on the 9th. The water fam
Inc was causing great suffering
NEWS of the 9th from Matamoras, Tex.
says that nine of the bandits captured by
the military up the river had been executed
CASHIER G. c. CRECILIUs of the suspend
ed Fifth National Bank Of St. Louis, was ar
rested On the 9th on charges of fraud and
forgery, amounting to over 100000 The
collapse Of the bank was due to his pecuIa
tions
SEVEN business places at Cimarron, Kan.
were burned on the 9th.
TIE Agricultural Department. at Washing
ton on the 10th reported the Yield OF the
corn crop in the country this season at
400, ,OOO, 600 bushels, a slight falling off
from the previous season. The potato crop
is placed at 134, 900, 900 bushels, against
1853, 600, 900 last year. '"''.. 5-'-.&
The Detroit Even.iug Nems office was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 10th
JUSTICE ScHwAB and others in New York
proposed on the 10th to appeal to the toll
ers of the world' to raise fund for the
maintenance of the families of the Chicago
Anarchists, who in the future would be
known rs the Wards of Liberty"
The officials at the Jail in Chicago were
startled on the morning of the 10th by a
loud report that proceeded from the cell of
the Anarchist, Louis Lingg, and upon in
vestigation discovered that the desperate
man had mutilated his face horribly by ex-
plod1ng Illuminating cap in his mouth. He
survived his injuries about six hours, death
ensuing at three o'clock in the afternoon. !,
-FOUR men were burned to death on the
10th in g1n-house on an Arkansas cotton
plantation that was destroyed by fire.
IHREE THOUSAND persons paraded in New
York on the evening of the 10th to show
their sympathy for the doomed Chicago
Anarchists. Black and red flags were car
rted, and the two American flags in the pro-
cession were furled and draped 3 =. I
In his annual report on the 10th to the
Secretary OF War Paymaster- General Roch-
ester recommends the extension OF the sys-
tenn OF monthly payments to the entire
army
JAMES P. MCCABE, was hanged on the 10th
=: at Honesdale, Pa, for the murder of Michael
Riley. =
An, explosion on the 10th in Runmeps
poWder~mills at Toledo, O., DESTROYED the
buildings. None of the employees were in
jured',. Fo-' uEs: - :, j 9I.t7I /:
!, RAIN was on the 10th putting a stop to
the forest fires that had been raging for
some time in the southern portion of I'LL
nois and in Southern Indiana. -..-,.-. ..-...s
WILLIAM M. Locke, a retired banker
whose fortunes had become impaired by
unfortunate speculation, committed suicide
on the 10th by shooting at Des Moines, la
IHE National Farmers congress held the
first session OF its seventh annual meeting
In Chicago on the 10th. The president.
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia, de-
ivered an address, ;5...,. ,,..,--...,. .slt.I
ON the afternoon Of the 10th Governor
Oglesby made public his decision In the case
OF the Chicago Anarchists, which commutes
the sentences of Samuel Fielden and Mi
chael Schwab to imprisonment for life, and
says that August Spies, Albert R. Parsons,
Adolph Fischer and George Engel must suf-
fer the penalty Of death. gtC ~, 4
AN infatuated girl was married on the
10th in the Jail at Kansas City, Mo-, to
James w. Bil1ngsley, felon, who had been
sentenced to five years. imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
On the 10th two skeletons, man and
woman, We're found on q farm neax Wa
bash, Ind Nobody knew any thing Of the
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